On Thursday afternoon, I headed home from MTSU for Christmas break. I had my car packed full of stuff from my dorm, since I was moving out of it. I had been driving for around 40 minutes of my 4 hour drive home when something terrible happened.

A Snyder semi-truck turned his signal light on and merged over into my lane without checking his blind spot or even paying attention. I had no choice but to either run into the median or get hit by the truck. I swerved into the median. The median dipped down, and I hit a drain going about 70 mph while hitting the brakes very hard. I went airborne. I remember that I was going to hit a sign in the median that said "Authorized vehicles only" that was about 7 or 8 feet or so off the ground. I remember all my stuff starting to shift around and come forward, then I blacked out. I didn't know this until after I was out of the hospital, but I went nose down and flipped end to end two times and my car landed on the drivers side. I woke up with a nosebleed,and I was trapped against the side of my car. My stuff was pinning me down. I tried to move my things off of me so I could get out of the car. I knew that nothing was wrong with me, and I wasn't in much pain besides soreness. I said "Please, God, help me" over and over again. Then the passenger door opened, and a state trooper by the name of Eric McCormick asked if I was alright. I told him and several other men that had stopped to help that I was fine, I just couldn't move. They moved my things off of me and held the passenger door open so I could climb out of the car.

I walked away from this wreck completely unharmed. I am alive and well. I have no broken bones and not a single scratch on my body. I have some bruises from the seatbelt, but that's it. The state trooper told me that the seatbelt saved my life, which is definitely true. However, I know what really saved my life was The Lord. It's a miracle that I'm alive right now, and it's also a miracle that I'm completely unhurt. I know that God has a plan for me. I know that God was working in my life even when I was young and made sure that all of my friends and their parents had seatbelts on before the vehicle went into motion. Yes, that's good parenting paying off, but I believe God had a plan for me then. He made me that annoying little kid for a reason. My pestering of everyone to wear a seatbelt paid off when it became a lifelong habit. I'm alive and unharmed.

You can't tell me that God isn't real when I am living proof that he is. God saved me for a reason. I have this amazing testimony and a very blessed life. Everything I have and everything I am working towards is for The Lord and from The Lord. Yes, this was the scariest moment of my life, but I wasn't even that scared. Maybe it all happened so fast that I couldn't feel the fear. But from the moment I woke up, even though I was scared to be trapped in my car in the middle of a median on the interstate, I knew that God had protected me. I knew that God would keep me safe through the rest of that evening. I was a lot more calm than I ever thought that I would be in a situation like that. I know that The Lord works for the good of those who love him, and I knew that he was protecting me.

So first, I urge you to always wear your seatbelt. And second, but certainly not less important, if you are doubting God's faith, I urge you to see what he has done for me. If God can save my life from a terrible car accident that I was in, he can save you too. Ask me about my testimony.